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PRONUNCIATION OF SAND PAINTING

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SAND PAINTING

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Sand painting is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SAND PAINTING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

sand painting

Sandpainting

Sandpainting is the art of pouring colored sands, powdered pigments from minerals or crystals, and pigments from other natural or synthetic sources onto a surface to make a fixed, or unfixed sand painting. Unfixed sand paintings have a long established cultural history in numerous social groupings around the globe, and are often temporary, ritual paintings prepared for religious or healing ceremonies. It is also referred to as drypainting. Drypainting is practiced by Native Americans in the Southwestern United States, by Tibetan and Buddhist monks, as well as Australian Aborigines, and also by Latin Americans on certain Christian holy days. SLNSW 75764 Warriors in Ambush series 49 Aboriginal Mystic Bora Ceremony...

Definition of sand painting in the English dictionary

The definition of sand painting in the dictionary is a type of painting done by American Indians, esp in the healing ceremonies of the Navaho, using fine coloured sand on a neutral ground.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE SAND PAINTING

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Synonyms and antonyms of sand painting in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «sand painting» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SAND PAINTING

Find out the translation of sand painting to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sand painting from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sand painting» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

沙画
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pintura de arena
570 millions of speakers

English

sand painting
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रेत पेंटिंग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اللوحة الرمال
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Песочная картина
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pintura de areia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বালি পেইন্টিং
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

peinture sur sable
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lukisan pasir
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sandmalerei
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

砂絵
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

모래 그림
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lukisan pasir
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

bức tranh cát
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மணல் ஓவியம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वाळू पेंटिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kum boyama
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sabbia pittura
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

malarstwo piasek
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Пісочна картина
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pictura nisip
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ζωγραφική άμμο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sand skildery
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

sand målning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sand maleri
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sand painting

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SAND PAINTING»

The term «sand painting» is regularly used and occupies the 85.598 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sand painting

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SAND PAINTING»

Discover the use of sand painting in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sand painting and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Making Art with Sand and Earth
For example, a sand painting might be created to cure a sick child. The child sits in the middle while the colored sands, mixed with charcoal and other materials, trickle through the fingers of the healer, forming a painting on the ground. After the ...
Gillian Chapman, Pam Robson, 2007
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Living in the Borderland: The Evolution of Consciousness and ...
Addresses the evolution of consciousness, describing the emergence of the Borderland consciousness and the challenge this presents to the Western medicine's concept of pathology.
Jerome S. Bernstein, 2006
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An Encyclopedia of Shamanism Volume 2 (Hardcover)
Sand Painting to the men. Today only a few thousand of the estimated 62,000 San are of pure blood or follow their original way of life. The San are the earliest aboriginal inhabitants of South Africa. Some are believed to have been there for ...
Christina Pratt, 2007
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A History of New Mexico
The most colorful feature of Navajo religion was the sand painting. Pueblo Indians and Apaches also used sand paintings. But the Navajo sand painting was the most detailed of Indian sand paintings. It became more and more outstanding as ...
Calvin A. Roberts, Susan A. Roberts, 2004
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Painting the Dream: The Shamanic Life and Art of David ...
A few other Indian artists were beginning to experiment with sand painting, too. From Tobey and Graves I had learned to recognize the value of craftsmanship and permanency, and I continued to refine the sand painting process and media.
David Chethlahe Paladin, 2003
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The G.O.D. Experiments: How Science Is Discovering God In ...
In all that time I never came upon a frog-shaped sand painting, or any other Native American painting made of sand. I have looked carefully at thousands of pictures of beaches from around the world; I never discovered a single sand painting.
Gary E. Schwartz, 2007
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Travel Narratives from New Mexico: Reconstructing Identity ...
This sand painting works as a map of polyphonic discourse for Tayo. His ritual within it shows him how to order his subsequent travel ceremony. Betonie sets up five hoops in the sand and paints four mountain ranges beside four of the hoops.
John Emory Dean, 2009
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Ways of Sensing: Understanding the Senses In Society
Among the Navajo, by contrast, the songs that are sung during the creation of a sand painting play an essential role in its appreciation as they call on the spirits to occupy their representations in the painting. The entire life of the sand painting,  ...
David Howes, Constance Classen, 2013
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Contemporary Color: Theory and Use
Navajo Man Sand Painting, circa 1990-2002, Arizona, USA. Sand paintings are created as part of healing ceremonies. After the ritual is completed, the sand painting is destroyed. The sand is applied by handspreading the colored grains ...
Steven Bleicher, 2011
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Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts
Although Cage shifted the focus off an interpretation of the two in's and alluded instead to “My Painting” through Pollock's mention of sand painting, his remarks were still grouped around the two concerns of technique and the psychologistics of ...
Douglas Kahn, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SAND PAINTING»

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Behold, Hypnotic Sand Paintings That Will Turn Your Brain Into Goo
Add to Watch Later. Share. Joe Mangrum Sand Painting #1 Doe Museum, Zuidlaren, Netherlands from Joe Mangrum on Vimeo. Portrait image for Joe Mangrum ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
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China Publishing Group Debuts in Times Square, Sand Painting to …
In the video themed "Read China," Su Dabao, a renowned Chinese sand painter who has performed at the CCTV Spring Festival gala, puts on a sand-painting ... «PR Newswire, May 15»
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Huge sand painting for Lord Jagannath by Sudarsan
Bhubaneswar: Noted sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik created a huge sand painting to welcome the sacred neem tree log for making of the new idol of Lord ... «Zee News, May 15»
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Steamboat library announces a call for sand painting designs
#In addition to the monks' incredible, intricately detailed sand mandala, was the community sand painting that allowed people of all ages to have a hands-on ... «Steamboat Pilot & Today, May 15»
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Tibetan monks begin mandala sand painting at Myrtle Beach art …
MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) – A group of Tibetan monks from the Derpung Gomany Monastery is in Myrtle Beach this week creating a Tantric Buddhist ... «WMBF, Mar 15»
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Monks to build sand painting at Myrtle Beach art museum
Tibetan Buddhist Monks create a sand painting symbolizing the universe in peace and harmony at the Burroughs and Chapin Art Museum in Myrtle Beach on ... «MyrtleBeachOnline.com, Mar 15»
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Sand painter comes to Colorado Springs to demonstrate art - and …
Mitchell Silas paints on his knees, grabbing pinches of colored sand that he ... 3 photos Photo - Mitchell Silas works on a sand painting Saturday, March 21, ... «Colorado Springs Gazette, Mar 15»
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Tibetan Monks Create Wildly Intricate Sand Painting, Before …
They're created from sand, on paper or cloth, or built as three-dimensional ... collaborate on a sacred sand painting meant to incite boundless compassion for all ... «Huffington Post, Oct 14»
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Monks to create colorful sand painting at Iowa State
It's a big season for Buddha. Just a month after a touring exhibition of the spiritual leader's holy cremains drew thousands of visitors to Hoyt Sherman Place, ... «DesMoinesRegister.com, Sep 14»
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Giant Fife sand painting of classical composer Franz Schubert …
A large sand painting of Franz Schubert is created by Bradford based Sand In ... The Sand in Your Eye team applied their deft and speedy skills to achieve the ... «Scottish Daily Record, Jun 14»

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